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• The cremation of Sam McGee (Greenwillow Books, 1987), by Robert W. Service and Ted Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tri-dead, a tale; with other pieces in verse. (Printed for the author, 1832), by A mechanic and Charles Devonshire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables and legends of many countries (J. R. Osgood, 1872), by John Godfrey Saxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kathrina : her life and mine, in a poem (C. Scribner & Co., 1867), by J. G. Holland, Emily Dickinson, and Charles Scribner and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faithless Nelly Gray : a pathetic ballad (Houghton, Mifflin, 1907), by Thomas Hood, Robert Seaver, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The condottier, a poem. Philadelphia, a satire. (published for the author, by M. Thomas. James Maxwell, printer, 1821), by John C. M'Call (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italy, a poem (Paris : Baudry's European Library, 3, quai Malaquais, near the pont des Arts, and Stassin and Xavier, 9, rue du Coq-St.-Honore, 1840., 1840), by Samuel Rogers, J. Smith, Jean Best, Antoine Thiébault, J. Cowland, Charles Marville, Charles Michel Geoffroy, France) Stassin et Xavier (Paris, and Baudry's European Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chimes for childhood : a collection of songs for little ones (Lee and Shepard, 1868), by Dana Estes, Boston Stereotype Foundry, John Wilson and Son, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucile (Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1892), by Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot Norton, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diverting history of John Gilpin, showing how he went further than he intended, and came safe home again (Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1906), by William Cowper, Robert Seaver, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Hougton, illust. by Robert Seaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucile (J. R. Osgood, 1884), by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, John Wilson and Son, and James R. Osgood and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rape of Lucrece (J.M. Dent and Co., 1900), by William Shakespeare and Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goblin market and other poems (Blackie, 1923), by Christina Georgina Rossetti and Florence Harrison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lady of the lake (London : A.W. Bennett, 1863., 1863), by Walter Scott, Thomas Ogle, and G. W. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conflict & quest. (Longmans, Green, 1926), by Francis Seymour Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Farm ballads (Harper & Brothers, 1874), by Will Carleton and Charles Stanley Reinhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regrets de Monseignevr le prince av roy ([France?] : [publisher not identified], MDCXVII [1617], 1617) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore, contrib. by Bruce Rogers, illust. by Florence Wyman Ivins (Gutenberg ebook)

• Evangeline (Alden, 1892), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The corsair: : a romantic legend of Hell Gate, illustrating the beauty of innocence. ... (Wm. B. Allen & Co., Publishers, 1885), by William Barney Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred narrative poems (Scott, Foresman and Company, 1918), by George E. Teter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human life, or, "The course of time" as seen in the open light. (Samuel C.W. Byington & Co. ..., 1889), by Caleb S. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The corsair; a romantic legend of Hell Gate: illustrating the beauty of innocence. Date of the action: Midsummer, 1627, by William Barney Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Story-Telling Ballads: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Domesday Book, by Edgar Lee Masters (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Pack of Autolycus: or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings As Told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624-1693 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
• English tales in verse (Blackie & Son, 1906), by C. H. Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Longer narrative poems (Globe School Book Co., 1902), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hispaniola, a poem : with appropriate notes. To which are added, Lines on the Crucifixion; and other poetical pieces (printed by W. Meyler, and sold by all the booksellers in Bath and Bristol; by G. and J. Robinson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London; and by Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1804), by Samuel Whitchurch (page images at HathiTrust)
• English narrative poems from the Renaissance (Blackie, 1909), by Mungo William MacCallum and Ernest Rudolph Holme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lalla Rookh; an oriental romance (G. A. Leavitt, 1870), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lalla Rookh; an oriental romance. (Phinney, Blakeman & Mason, 1860), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred narrative poems (Scott, Foresman and Company, 1918), by George E. Teter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance (Estes and Lauriat, 1885), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Childe Harold's pilgrimage; a romaunt. (J. Murray, 1860), by George Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lallah Rookh, an Oriental romance. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842), by Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• English tales in verse (Gresham Pub. Co., 1906), by C. H. Herford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English and Scottish popular ballads (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904), by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, William James, and Helen Child Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dymer, by C. S. Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Story-Telling Ballads: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Narrative Poems, ed. by Claude Moore Fuess and Henry Nichols Sanborn (Gutenberg ebook)

• The delineation of character in Chaucer's narrative poetry (1920), by Paulus John Herman Lange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Contes en vers imités du Moyen de parvenir (L. Willem, 1874), by Béroalde de Verville, Louis Chevigné, Prosper Blanchemain, Bernard de La Monnoye, Grécourt, and Jacques Autreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cittiraputtiranayin̲ārkatai : aitīkappaṭaṅkaḷuṭan̲ (Vittiyāratnākara Accukkūṭam, 1920), by Mu Kiruṣṇap Piḷḷai and Kuyappēṭṭai Vī Irāju Mutaliyār (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Naẓm-i sirāj : naẓmiyyah tarjumah ḥadīson̲ kā (1848), by Imāmuddīn and Muḥammad Ḥusain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shāhnāmah-yi Urdū. (880-03 [Lakhnaʼū?] : Naval Kishor, [18--?], in the 19th century), by Firdawsī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tales of the Pampas (Alfred A. Knopf, 1916), by W. H. Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the skylights (D. Appleton, 1901), by Henry Blake Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The splendid idle forties : stories of old California (The Macmillan Comapny ;, 1902), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Harrison Fisher, Norwood Press, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cumberland vendetta. (C. Scribner's sons, 1912), by John Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second jungle book (Century Co., 1899), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wolf's long howl. (H.S. Stone & Co., 1899), by Stanley Waterloo, Will Bradley, and Herbert S. Stone & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American claimant, and other stories and sketches (Harper, 1896), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land and sea tales for scouts and guides (London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923., 1923), by Rudyard Kipling, Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Many inventions. (Macmillan, 1893), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monster and other stories (New York : London ; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899., 1899), by Stephen Crane, Peter J. Solomon, and Peter Newell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Short story writing. (Ronald Press, 1928), by Mary Burchard Orvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great modern American stories : an anthology (Boni and Liveright, 1920), by William Dean Howells and Boni & Liveright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ersten Novellen Otto Ludwigs und ihr Verhältnis zu Ludwig Tieck ... (Druck von B. Feigenspan, 1903), by Wilhelm Greiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected short stories (Charles E. Merrill company, 1914), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The recreations of Christopher North [pseud.] (William Blackwood & sons, 1842), by John Wilson and William Blackwood and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romanische schelmennovellen. (Deutsche verlagsactiengesellschaft, 1905), by Jakob Ulrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Girl from the marsh croft. (Doubleday, Page, 1916), by Selma Lagerlöf and Velma Swanston Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The delectable mountains (Scribner's, 1901), by Arthur Willis Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• My tussle with the devil : and other stories (I.M.Y. Company, 1918), by O. Henry, A. Houghton Pratt, O. Henry, and I.M.Y. Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• My garden of hearts : a collection of the best short stories and essays written during a long literary lifetime (The Christian Herald, Bible House, 1913), by Margaret E. Sangster and Christian Herald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The baked head : and other tales. (G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-true tales. Stories founded on fiction. Illustrated by C. Jay Taylor. (Puck Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1891), by C. H. Augur, Charles Jay Taylor, and Keppler & Schwarzmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Africa, Stories of. (C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by Rudyard Kipling and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaje á través de la estirpe y otras narraciones. (Buenos Aires, 1908), by Carlos O. Bunge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Magdalen, and other tales. (E. Moxon, 1832), by James Sheridan Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literary box : containing the contributions of the Evelyn family, consisting of instructing and amusing tales, in prose and verse, suited to all ages (John Harris, 1824), by George Woodfall, Russell, and J. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Touti nameh. (Cotta, 1822), by Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten, Carl Jakob Ludwig Iken, Muḥammad Qādirī, and Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIVe siècle : pub. d'après les manuscrits, avec une introduction et des notes (P. Jannet, 1858), by Louis Moland, Charles d' Héricault, and Charles d' Héricault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelle vecchie e nuove (Successori Le Monnier, 1869), by Francesco Dall'Ongaro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merry Christmas; a Christmas present for children and youth. (Cyrus Stone, 1853), by William M. Thayer, Cyrus Stone, and Hobart and Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories for children (Willis P. Hazard, 1854), by Maria Edgeworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mosses from an old manse (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1854]., 1854), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from [his] plays (Chapman, 1859), by Molière and Dacre Barrett Lennard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Main-travelled roads (Harper, 1899), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les cent nouvelles nouvelles : suivent les cent nouvelles : contenant les cent histoires nouveaux, qui sont moult plaisans a raconter, en toutes bonnes compagnies : par maniere de joyeuseté : avec d'excellentes figures en taille-douce, graveés sur les desseins du fameux Mr. Romain de Hooge. (Chez Pierre Gaillard, 1701), by Pierre Gaillard, Jan Van Vianen, Laurens Scherm, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's own story book (Copp, Clark, 1916), by Norma Bright Carson and Florence E. Bright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The strength of the strong (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of his life, and other romances. (Dodd, Mead & company, 1921), by Mary Cholmondeley, W. Heffer & Sons, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind in the rose bush. (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903), by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Maria J. Murray, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The red one (The Macmillan Company, 1918), by Jack London and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treasure of the redwoods : and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin, 1903), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancestors of Peter Atherly, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin company, 1900), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• New faces (G.W. Dillingham Company, 1910), by Myra Kelly and Charles F. Neagle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Day-books (J. Lane ;, 1896), by Mabel E. Wotton, Patten Wilson, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, John Lane Company, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tilen Rekar. (Slovenska matica, 1907), by Josip Regali and Josip Konstanjevec (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Melchior's dream and other tales (George Bell and Sons ..., 1886), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, Gordon Browne, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, George Bell & Sons, Chiswick Press, and C. Whittingham and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jewett's Play day stories. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), by Sarah Orne Jewett, Katharine H. Shute, Katharine H. Shute, and Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• White heron. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), by Sarah Orne Jewett, Katharine H. Shute, and Katharine H. Shute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old manse and a few mosses (Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middleway; tales of a New England village (Copeland and Day, 1897), by Kate Whiting Patch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy cross : and other tales. (Scribner, 1896), by Eugene Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of short stories; a collection for use in high schools (D. Appleton and Company, 1919), by Frederick Stuart Greene, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, W. W. Jacobs, O. Henry, Arthur Morrison, Hamlin Garland, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alphonse Daudet, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Blanche Colton Williams, Jack Flanagan, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ghetto tragedies (Macmillan, 1907), by Israel Zangwill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fortnight of folly (Street & Smith, 1902), by Maurice Thompson, Hugh Conway, and Frederich John Fargus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lamplighter (Chapman & Hall;, 1898), by Charles Dickens, Andrew Lang, William Clowes and Sons, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Chapman and Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diēgēmata (Anestēs Kōnstantinidēs, 1897), by Dēmētrios Vikelas, Odysseas Phōkas, Jacques Rizo, Theodōros Rallēs, Geōrgios Iakōvidēs, Nikēphoros Lytras, Nikolaos Gyzēs, and Angelos Giallinas (page images at HathiTrust)
• International short stories (P. F. Collier, 1910), by Francis J. Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer for children; a golden key (Chatto & Windus, 1877), by Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Eliza Joy Haweis, and Chatto & Windus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A niece of Snapshot Harry's, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin company, 1903), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cressy, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• A waif of the plains, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the desert of waiting; the legend of Camel-back Mountain. (L.C. Page & co., 1908), by Annie F. Johnston, T. M. Cleland, Plimpton Press, and L.C. Page & Company (1897-1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The under dog (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Francis Hopkinson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood fire in number 3. (A.L. Burt Co., 1905), by Francis Hopkinson Smith, Alonzo Kimball, and A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethan Frome. (Scribner, 1914), by Edith Wharton, Alonzo Kimball, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the crust. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleasant tales by popular authors, comprising sixty tales, with one hundred and forty pictures (Routledge, Warne & Routledge), by Fernand Gabriel Renier, Anne Renier, Warne Routledge, Son and Taylor R. Clay, and National Art Library (Great Britain). Renier Collection of Historic and Contemporary Children's Books (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Farṭunḳlṭ gold (Ṿilner farlag fun B. Ḳletsḳin, 1928), by Baruch Glasman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Easter offering (Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1850), by Fredrika Bremer and Mary Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milli fjalls og fjöru : sögur úr íslenzku sveitalífi (Bókaverzlun Guðm. Gamalíelssonar, 1910), by Benedikt Björnsson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A child's history of England, the Holly-tree inn, and other stories. (Aldine book publishing co., 1880), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transatlantic stories (Duckworth, 1926), by Paris Transatlantic review (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Love, and other stories (Macmillan Co., 1923), by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Constance Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great march : post-Biblical Jewish stories (Dept. of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1931), by Rose G. Lurie, Todros Geller, and Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Department of Synagogue and School Extension (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complete works of O. Henry (Garden City Pub. Co., 1937), by O. Henry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The best ghost stories (New York : A.L. Burt, [1924], 1924), by Bohun Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dawgs! : an anthology of stories about them (Garden City Publishing Company, 1925), by Charles Wright Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land and sea tales for boys and girls (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923), by Rudyard Kipling, Chandler Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

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